gated community

noun

a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.

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How to use gated community in a sentence

We act as if we lived in a gated community, immune to history, as if everything were happening for the first time.
In Syria, Europe & Boston, the Past Is Never Finished | Kati Marton | May 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Daily still has the feel of a gated community, in part because it lives primarily as an app within a stand-alone gadget.
The Daily: Rupert Murdoch's New Toy | Howard Kurtz, Brian Ries | February 2, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Bunkered in a gated community, away from friends and foes alike, John Edwards lives a lonely life.
John Edwards in Exile | Diane Dimond | June 17, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
But goings on inside a gated community that involve the private life of an athlete and his wife?
Who Cares What Tiger Did? | Conor Friedersdorf | November 28, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
After her brother's scheme collapsed, she also put her home in a gated community outside Palm Beach up for sale.
Ruth Madoff's Private World | Lucinda Franks | April 6, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST

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